Johnson’s visit marks the first time the top representative in the House is visiting a college campus amid ongoing protests that have at times burst into violent attacks between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students.
Student protests in the U.S. over the war in Gaza have intensified and expanded over the past week, with a number of encampments now in place at colleges including Columbia, Yale, and New York University.
Pro-Palestinian protests have swept through college campuses since over 100 protesters were arrested at Columbia University last week. Here’s how it happened.
Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover Seders, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza.
Hundreds of American University students rallied to demand the administration divest from Israel and discontinue the school’s study-abroad programs in Israel.
By Jonathan Allen and Jane Ross NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Columbia University students heckled House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as he visited the flashpoint of nationwide student demonstrations over the Israeli war in Gaza,
Protests over the Israel-Gaza war have been spreading and intensifying at college campuses across the country in the past week, with students arrested at New York University, Yale and Columbia University during pro-Palestinian protests,
Campuses nationwide are grappling with growing unrest over the war in Gaza. Also in the news: Donald Trump's lawyers say the former president did not violate a gag order in his New York criminal trial.
Colleges are set to welcome students and their families for commencements in the coming weeks as student-led protests rock campuses across the country.
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza
The decision by Columbia University’s president to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week appears to have sparked the spate of increasingly strident demonstrations.
University of Southern California, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University all had student riots on Wednesday, as anti-Israel hostility on college campuses grows.
Columbia University’s main campus will switch to hybrid learning for the rest of the semester amid protests over Israel’s war with Hamas that have roiled colleges across the U.S. University officials
Columbia University’s governing body backed President Nemat Shafik amid escalating demands for her resignation, spurred by student-led protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict.
U.S. colleges and universities are preparing for end-of-year commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke on the Columbia University campus, calling for an end to anti-Israel protests that have turned violent at times and led to arrests.
At Harvard, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, which was formally suspended earlier this week, chanted, marched, and cheered, holding Palestinian flags and signs within the yard.
The House’s top Republican visited the university in New York City, where activists have taken over part of campus to protest Israel’s brutal invasion of Gaza.
The university said discussions between the school and protesters are continuing and the student demonstrators have agreed to take down some of their tents.
After meeting with Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday called on her to resign if she can’t tamp down Gaza war protests at the school and threatened federal funding for colleges that don't create safe environments for their Jewish students.
House Speaker Mike Johnson gave a forceful speech in support of Jewish students at Columbia University on Wednesday afternoon amid widespread anti-Israel protests on campus.
Speaker Mike Johnson said he will call Joe Biden and demand the president send the National Guard to Columbia University — an escalation after protesters constantly shouted him and other Republicans down during a visit to the campus Wednesday.
LAPD officers in riot gear arrested at least 35 people as they moved to clear an encampment at the center of the USC campus that formed in protest against the Israel-Hamas war.
The leader of the US House of Representatives has called on the head of Columbia University to resign. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said that university president Nemat Shafik has failed to guarantee the safety of Jewish students on campus.
Campus Department of Public Safety officers visited the encampment, instructed students not to hang signs, flags or other materials from trees and posts in the park, and warned them not to use megaphones.
National political leaders ratcheted up the pressure for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to step down on Wednesday as Pro-Palestinian campus protests continued at the school’s New York campus and spread to colleges across the country.